U.n. Considers Rebuilding Iraqi Factory It Destroyed

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July 4, 1999

DAURA, Iraq - The U.N. Security Council has agreed to send a team of experts to assess whether a vaccine factory ordered destroyed by U.N. weapons inspectors should be rebuilt, an official for the world body said Saturday. Experts from Britain, Germany and France are scheduled to arrive in Iraq on July 15 to inspect the factory in Daura, near Baghdad. U.N. arms inspectors had the factory's equipment destroyed in 1996 after concluding Iraq had used the facility to make biological weapons. However, the loss of the equipment means Iraq has been ill-prepared to fight an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.